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THOMAS L. LIVERMORE, of Boston, Chairman 

ARTHUR LORD of Plymouth 

FRANCIS HENRY APPLETON of Peabody 

WILSON H. FAIRBANK of Warren 

MRS. BARRETT WENDELL of Boston 



Boston Office, 53 State Street, Room 542 

Telephone MAIN 5679 

WILLIAM A. MURPHY, Secretary 

MISS EMMA A. ALLEN, Assistant Secretary 



MRS. MABEL WOLCOTT BROWN of Belmont, Hostess of 

Massachusetts Building 

MISS GERTRUDE L. BRINKHAUS of Maiden, Director of 

State Exhibits 



The Old State House 

Through the enactment of Chapter 65 of the Acts of the 
year 1906, approved by His Excellency the Governor, on 
May 7 of that year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
accepted the invitation of the Commonwealth of Virginia 
to participate in the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposi- 
tion. The Resolve provided for the appointment of a 
Board of Jamestown Exposition Managers for Massachu- 
setts, consisting of five residents of the Commonwealth, 
this Board to have charge " of the interests of the Com- 
monwealth and of its citizens in the preparation and 
exhibition at said ' exposition of the natural and indus- 
trial products of the Commonwealth and of objects illus- 
trating its history, progress and moral and material 
welfare and development." Under the authority of the act 
referred to, His Excellency, Curtis Guild, Jr., appointed 
as this Board of Managers Major Henry L. Higginson 
of Boston, Arthur Lord of Plymouth, Francis Henry Apple- 
ton of Peabody, Wilson H. Fairbank of Warren, and 
Mrs. Barrett Wendell of Boston. Subsequently Major 
Higginson resigned, and His Excellency designated Colonel 
Thomas L. Livermore of Boston to serve in his stead, and 
Colonel Livermore was elected chairman of the Board. 

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Having in mind the historic character of the exposition, 
conceived to commemorate the event of the first permanent 
English settlement in America on Jamestown Island, in 
1607, the Massachusetts Board decided to erect as the 
Massachusetts Building a replica of the Old State House in 
Boston. The plans submitted by the Board's architect, 
Mr. John Lavalle of Boston, were approved and the build- 
ing on Hampton Roads was completed by the middle of 
May. The judgment of the Board in reproducing the Old 
State House as it stood in Colonial times at the head of 
King street, now State street, has been most warmly com- 
mended. The historic and 'patriotic memories which at- 
tach to the building in Boston, and which make it to-day 
one of the most important among the historical buildings 
of the country, made even a replica of greatest interest. 

Massachusetts reveres its "Old State House," for such 
it is, and the spot on which it stands is venerable. 

In the descriptive circular entitled " The Old Town 
House of Boston," issued by the Bostonian Society, in 
whose patriotic hands the custody of the Old State House 
has been placed, may be read the following : 

" From the infant days of the struggling Puritan settle- 
ment, gathered upon the peninsula of Shawmut, nestling in 
the low land lying between Beacon, Fort and Copp's Hills, 
and following the water line of the Town Dock, now cov- 

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ered by the present Quincy Market and streets abutting 
upon it even farther inland, this site has been one of cen- 
tral interest. Here, upon land now forming the present 
corner of State and Devonshire streets, the fathers of early 
Boston consecrated with prayer and psalm their first reli- 
gious edifice, and it was here, also, that they first held their 
deliberations upon the conduct of their temporal affairs. 
As early as 1634, according to an unquestionable authority, 
a parcel of ground, definitely recognized and described in 
the 'Book of Possessions,' under date of eleven years later, 
was set apart as a market place. This estate, the area of 
which has never been curtailed or widened, is to-day in- 
tact, enclosed within the walls of the Old State House." 

It appears that the ground was thus reserved for public 
use until, in 1656, Captain Robert Keayne died and by his 
will left the sum of three hundred pounds, current money, 
quite a sum in those days, which was to be expended for 
the public interest, or, to quote from the ancient record : 

" For building a conduit and a market place, with some 
convenient room or two for the Courts to meet in, both 
summer and winter, and so for the Townsmen and Com- 
missioners in the same building or the like, and a conven- 
ient room for a library or a gallery or some other handsome 
room for the elders to meet in ; likewise a room for an 
armory." 

The erection of the first structure, in wood, upon the site 
resulted. 



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The record shows that this first Town House stood from 
1658 to 171 1, when fire destroyed it. Here presided the 
royal governors, John Endecott, Richard Bellingham, John 
Leverett, Simon Bradstreet, Sir Edmund Andros, Sir Wil- 
liam Phipps, William Stoughton, Richard, Earl of Bello- 
mont, and Joseph Dudley. 

In 17 12 a committee of twelve was appointed for the re- 
building of the structure, and, in an order dated November 
17, 17 12, it was ordered that "the Committee fit the East 
Chamber for the Use of His Excellency the Governour, and 
the Honourable the Council." From 17 13 to 1747, Joseph 
Dudley, William Tailer, Samuel Shute, William Dummer, 
William Burnet, Jonathan Belcher and William Shirley were 
governors and occupied the building. 

Fire again practically destroyed the building, and it was 
finally rebuilt in 1748, at which time it presented, as near 
as can be gleaned from existing records, the same exterior 
which is reproduced on Hampton Roads, except that the 
entrance porch, of ancient Doric architecture, was reached 
by a semi-circular staircase extending in two directions to 
the sloping grade of King Street. 

Governor Shirley, famed for the memorable military ex- 
pedition which, under General William Pepperell, achieved 
the conquest of Louisbourg, first occupied the restored 
building. Then came Thomas Pownal and Francis Ber- 



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nard, commissioned by the King. From the balcony under 
the east window, the accession of George the Third was 
proclaimed. 

Within this building, in 1761, James Otis, Jr., made his 
famous plea against the Writs of Assistance, and '' then and 
there," John Adams later said, "the child Independence 
was born." Here spoke also Adams, Quincy, Warren, 
Gushing and Hancock. In the Gouncil Ghamber, in 1770, 
John Adams and Josiah Quincy, Jr., defended the soldiers 
engaged in the "Boston Massacre." Here Samuel Adams, 
at the head of a committee of fifteen, appointed at a meet- 
ing of citizens in Faneuil Hall, on the day following this 
event, successfully demanded of Governor Hutchinson the 
removal of the British troops to Gastle William, making 
this room historic as the scene of the first concession ob- 
tained by the colonists from the Grown. From the east 
window, on July 18, 1776, the people first heard read the 
Declaration of Independence. In the Gouncil Ghamber, 
also, were inaugurated John Hancock, James Bowdoin, 
Samuel Adams and Increase Sumner. 

In 1798 the seat of government was transferred to the 
present State House on Beacon Hill. 

Reference has here been made to but few of the stirring 
and historic events that made famous and revered the old 
State House, which also, through the Revolutionary period. 



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" fitly maintained its prominence as the palladium of popu- 
lar liberties, and the early seat of the representatives of the 
people," where Washington reviewed the triumphant entry 
of the Continental Army upon the evacuation of Boston by 
the British, and where was installed the government of a 
new state. 



The Massachusetts Building 

A word of the replica of this "gallant Old State House," 
as it has been called. The brick walls are laid up with an 
unusual bond of alternating headers and stretchers showing 
black ends to the headers in geometrical design. 

The porches, railings, cable ornaments and central tower 
are all built of wood, and painted white, while the flanking 
figures of the Lion and Unicorn, and the central wreath 
surmounted by a quaint sun-dial, are emphasized in gold 
and other rich coloring. 

The first story of the building has been given over 
entirely to exhibits which are designed to show something 
of the progress of the Commonwealth and her departments. 
Hence, on this floor no attempt has been made to preserve 
the original arrangements, save that the old staircase hall, 
with a delicate winding flight, in the centre of the building, 
leads to the second story, and here history repeats itself 
very faithfully in every particular. All the exquisite carv- 



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ings of newel posts and balusters, in refined details and 
ornaments in the dadoes, cornices, door-heads and mantle- 
pieces of the Council Chamber and the Representatives' Hall 
have been repeated from careful measurements of existing 
fragments, as well as from ancient prints and descriptions. 

As intimated, the lower floor of the building has been 
given over to state departmental and educational exhibits, 
and the upper floor shows the historic halls. The furniture 
in the Council Chamber and Representatives' Hall is re- 
produced from the Colonial period for the Board by Messrs. 
Meekins, Packard & Wheat of Springfield. The two gate- 
legged tables are exact reproductions from a table in Pil- 
grim Hall, Plymouth, Massachusetts, and are made of solid 
mahogany throughout. The John Hancock sofas are also 
reproduced from a sofa in Pilgrim Hall. Representative of 
the Colonial period, also, are the chairs and settees about 
the chamber. 

The Board of Managers is indebted to those men and 
women and historical associations of the Commonwealth 
whose generosity has made possible the exhibition of the 
copies of pictures or portraits of historical worth and the 
relics and mementoes of the earlier days of the old Bay 
State, which are to be found in the halls of the building. 

The Board is indebted also to the boards and commis- 
sions whose exhibits are within the halls. 

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The entire first floor of the State Building is given over 
to the various school and State department exhibits as- 
sembled by Miss Gertrude L. Brinkhaus, Director of Official 
Exhibits for the Board of Jamestown Exposition Managers 
for Massachusetts. This well-ordered exhibit is, of course, 
most interesting to the student of educational problems, of 
sociological questions and of State organization. The aim 
of the Board in this connection is to show just what the 
Commonwealth is doing to-day through its important de- 
partments, and the Board believed no place more appro- 
priate for such a demonstration than the State Building 
itself. 

Educational Room, First Floor 

On entering the building the visitor comes first to the 
work of the public schools of the State. This work is 
shown in part in the regulation so-called units of installa- 
tion, consisting of wall cabinets with swing frames, contain- 
ing charts, photographs and pupils' work, show cases or 
tables and bases with shelves for bound volumes of written 
work. These units (forty in number) are an attractive 
green in coloring, the whole surmounted by the State seal. 
Ranged against the walls, beginning at the left of the room, 
they show the following subjects and exhibitors : 

Kindergarten — Practice School of State Normal School 
at North Adams. 

Reading and Literature — Practice School of State Nor- 
mal School at Salem. 

History — Public Schools, City of Everett. 

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Language — Public Schools, City of Somerville. 

Penmanship — Public Schools, City of Somerville. 

Geography — Public Schools, City of Fall River. 

Music — Public Schools, City of Worcester. 

Sewing — Public Schools, City of Worcester. 

Cooking — Public Schools, City of Haverhill. 

Book-binding — Public Schools, City of Haverhill. 

Arithmetic — Public Schools, City of Springfield. 

Work of Defectives — Public Schools, City of Spring- 
field. 

Technical High School and Evening School of Trades, 
Public Schools, City of Springfield. 

Representation and Applied Design — Central Public 
High School, City of Springfield. 

High School — Public English High School, City of 
Somerville. - 

Elementary Science — Practice School of State Normal 
School at Bridgewater. 

Drawing — Public Schools, City of Newton. 

Industrial and Social Education — Practice School of 
State Normal School at Hyannis. 

Rural Schools — Collective exhibit from small country 
schools. 

Evening Schools — Public Schools, City of Lowell. 

City Training School for Teachers, City of Lowell. 

Seamanship, Navigation, Engineering — Massachusetts 
Nautical Training School. 

Looking from the front door toward the imposing cast of 
the statue of Paul Revere, by Cyrus E. Dallin, which was 

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lent by the makers, P. P. Caproni and Brother, of Boston, 
one finds on the left and right the following : 

School Administration — State Board of Education and 
Cities and Towns. 

Agriculture — Massachusetts Agricultural College at Am- 
herst. 

Free Public Libraries — ■ Massachusetts Library Commis- 
sion. 

Textile Industries — Textile School at Lowell. 
The Normal Schools — 

Drawing, Pedagogical Side — Massachusetts Normal Art 
School. 

Courses of Study and Methods of Instruction — State 
Normal School at Bridgewater. 

Child Study — State Normal School at Fitchburg. 

Schools of Observation and Practice — State Normal 
School at Fitchburg. 

Domestic Science — State Normal School at Framingham. 

Biology, Physical Training, Summer School Work — 
State Normal School at Hyannis. 

Kindergarten Training — State Normal School at Lowell. 

General Work — State Normal School at Westfield. 

On the walls of the front room, on attractive panels, will 
be found a representative course of study in Manual Train- 
ing, from the first grade through the High School, from the 
town of Brookline. In passing through to the rotunda, 
with its winding stairway, one notes six panels, one in pat- 
tern-making, one in forging and one in machine shop work, 
from the Technical High School of the City of Springfield ; 

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and from the Evening School of Trades of the same city, 
one of pattern-making, one of plumbing, and one of ma- 
chine shop work. 



Ladies' Rest-Room, First Floor 

Just off the educational room, the Board has provided a 
Ladies' Rest-Room. In this room are to be seen the four 
water-colors done by H. B. Warren and lent by Walter Kim- 
ball & Company, of Boston, showing the Old State House, 
the Old North Church, the Old South Church and Faneuil 
Hall, in the city of Boston. Here, also, are seen framed 
photographs of the following : 

Governor William Dummer, lent by Miss Margaret W^ 
Gushing of Newburyport. 

Reverend Caleb Gushing, lent by Miss Elizabeth Gushing 
Goodhue of Andover. 

Mrs. Cornelius Waldo, from portrait by John Smibert in 
1750, lent by Mr. Lawrence Park of Groton. 

Robert Gibbs, a portrait by Tom Child, lent by Miss 
S. B. Hagar, of Weston. 

There is, also, the photograph of the Statue of the Min- 
ute-Man, from the collection of the Lexington Historical 
Society ; a photograph of the famous naval engagement 
between the " Enterprise and Boxer," off the coast of 
Maine in 181 2 ; a portrait of John Adams, lent by Charles 
Francis Adams of Lincoln ; and a photograph of the por- 
trait of James Otis, by Blackburn, lent by Miss Mary Otis 
Porter of Boston. 

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Rotunda, First Floor 
Here is a unique exhibit of schoolhouse architecture 
consisting of twelve large frames, furnished, by request, by 
two representative architects of public school buildings 
constructed outside of the City of Boston — Cooper and 
Bailey, of Boston, and E. C. Gardner and G. C. Gardner, 
of Springfield. This exhibit is designed to show not only 
exterior views of typical buildings, but also floor plans, 
lighting, heating and ventilation. 

State Department Room, First Floor 

On leaving the rotunda there are to be seen on the im- 
mediate left maps and framed photographs showing the 
work of the Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, and 
on the right a similar representation of the work of the 
Boston Transit Commission. 

The exhibit hall in the rear is devoted to the State 
Departments. Here, in units of installation similar to 
those in the Educational room, may be seen, by means 
of graphic charts, photographs, annual reports, printed 
pamphlets and handwork, what is being done by the follow- 
ing : 

The District Police. 

The State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. 

The State Board of Insanity. 

The Prison Commissioners. 

The Commission for the Blind. 

The Savings Banks Commissioner. 

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The Railroad Commissioners. 

The Bureau of Statistics of Labor. 

The State Board of Health. 

The State Board of Charity. 

On the tables are large volumes and portfolios showing 
the work of — 

The Gas and Electric Light Commission. 

The Charles River Basin Commission. 

The Massachusetts School and Home for Crippled and 
Deformed Children. 

County Truant Schools. 

On the large screen in the center of the room are the 
splendid exhibits of — 

The Commission on Industrial Education. 

The Massachusetts Highway Commission, 

The Metropolitan Park Commission. 

An attractive exhibit on the walls, in the form of four 
large panels, is that of the Trade School of the Massachu- 
setts Reformatory at Concord Junction. The work done 
by the inmates shows the departments of Sloyd, carpentry, 
engraving, plumbing, blacksmithing and photography. 

Before leaving this lower floor, the special attention of 
the visitor is called to the extensive and beautiful exhibit 
of the Commission for the Blind. The largest part of this 
exhibit consists of art fabrics and rugs woven by the blind. 
A unique feature is the series of curtains used in furnishing 
the windows. The set in the rear room, the State Depart- 
ment room, symbolizes Indian war chiefs in council under 
the pines of Virginia. The set in the front room, the Edu- 

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cational room, is of particular interest, as the motive was 
designed as well as woven by a totally blind woman. 

Council Chamber, Second Floor 

Beginning on right on entering the chamber : 

Over the John Hancock sofa : — 

Framed photograph of Habijah Savage, original por- 
trait painted about 17 15, lent by Mr. Lawrence Park of 
Groton. 

Framed photograph of silhouette of Rev. Joseph Willard, 
S.T.D., President of Harvard College 1 781-1804, lent by 
Miss Susanna Willard of Cambridge. 

Framed photographs of Jon. Jackson (son of Dorothy 
Quincy and Edward Jackson) and of Hannah Tracy (Mrs. 
Jonathan Jackson), lent by Mrs. S. Parkman Blake of 
Boston. 

Hatchment from the coat-of-arms of the Tracy family, 
lent by Miss Mary Lee Ware of Boston. 

Perspective view of Boston Harbor, lent by W. G. Shilla- 
ber of Boston. 

Photograph of Clarke Morton. 

Photographs from portraits of Col. Jeremiah Lee and 
Mrs. Lee, lent by Miss Margaret W. Gushing of Newbury- 
port. 

A View of Harvard College Yard, lent by Dr. J. B. Ayer 
of Boston. 

Engraving of Increase Sumner, lent by Mrs. John Heard, 
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A View of the Obelisk erected under the Liberty Tree in 
Boston on the Rejoicing for the Repeal of the Stamp Act, 
lent by Dr. J. B. Ayer of Boston. 

Framed photographs of Patrick Tracy, lent by Mrs. S. 
Parkman Blake of Boston ; and of Mrs. Habijah Savage, 
lent by Mr. Lawrence Park of Groton. 

Copy of the portrait of William Hickling, 1 704-1 780, 
lent by Miss Susanna Willard of Cambridge. 

Framed photograph of Stephen Higginson, born in Bos- 
ton, 1743, lent by Mrs. S. Parkman Blake. 

Photographs from portraits, in one frame, of Thomas 
Stevenson, 1742-1775, and Isabella Stevenson, 1744-1775, 
lent by Mrs. John H. Morison. 

Continuing to the right, the visitor sees the painting of 
John Heard, of Ipswich, original by Stuart, copied and lent 
by Miss Alice Heard of Ipswich. 

Beneath this painting are photographs, from the Bowdoin 
College Art Museum, of James Bowdoin, 1747, by Joseph 
Badger ; of Mrs. William Bowdoin, by Robert Feke, dated 
1748, and of Hon. William Bowdoin, by Robert Feke, 
dated 1748. 

The next painting is of Col. Thomas Dawes (builder, 
architect, representative, councillor and senator), copied 
by Miss Furness from Stuart's portrait and lent by 
Dawes Eliot Furness of Boston. Beneath this painting are 
framed photographs from the Bowdoin College Art Mu- 
seum of Dr. James McSparren, original by John Smi- 
bert ; Hon. James Bowdoin, original by Gilbert Stuart ; 
Mrs. James Bowdoin, original by Gilbert Stuart ; Thomas 



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Flucker, Esq., Colonial Secretary, original by John Single- 
ton Copley. 

The next painting in order is of Madam Pickering, wife 
of Hon. Timothy Pickering, a copy of Stuart's painting by 
Miss R. T. Furness. 

Just under these paintings are seen further photographs 
from the Bowdoin College Art Museum of the Bowdoin 
Family Portrait, dated 1647 ; Governor Bowdoin in his 
Youth; Madam Bowdoin, by Robert Feke, dated 1748; 
and of Governor Bowdoin, also by Feke, dated 1748. 

In the corner of the Chamber, on the right hand side, 
will be noted the paintings of Judge John Lowell, 1743- 
1802 (a copy of Blackburn), and of Katharine Greene, 
(copy after Copley), who married John Amory in 1757, 
lent by J. A. L. Blake of Boston. 

Beneath these paintings are photographs of Hon. James 
Bowdoin and Lady Temple in their Youth, of Governor 
Bowdoin (original by John Singleton Copley), of Mrs. 
Judith Bowdoin Flucker and of General Samuel Waldo, 
from the Bowdoin College Art Museum ; and of Lucretia 
Chandler, 17 28-1 7 68, from portrait by Copley, lent by Miss 
Susanna Willard. 

Over the two fireplaces at the end of the Chamber are 
the paintings of George Washington and Martha Washing- 
ton. These are copies from originals by Gilbert Stuart in 
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, painted by Charles E. 
Mills, 1907, and lent by Mr. Henry Bacon, of Boston and 
New York. 

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Mrs. John Langdon, original by Blackburn, lent by Mrs. 
Edward Brandegee, and of Mrs. McSparren, original by 
Smibert, lent by R. H. Gardiner, of Boston and Gardi- 
ner, Me. 

Beneath these two paintings is the picture showing the 
tomb of George Washington, with the inscription " There is 
Rest in Heaven," lent by Mrs. Francis H. Lee of Salem, 
and photographs of Benjamin Franklin, lent by Foster 
Brothers of Boston, and of Thomas Hancock and Mrs. 
Hancock, from the portraits by Blackburn, lent by Mrs. 
L. B. Taft of Milton ; and of Increase Sumner ; and a 
small painting of Miss Clarke, sister-in-law of Copley, 
original by Copley. 

To the right are the paintings of John Adams, President 
of the United States, and of Abigail, his wife (original 
by Stuart), lent by Charles Francis Adams of Lincoln. 
Beneath these paintings are framed photographs of the 
Quincy family, lent by Miss Alice B. Gould. 

Further along is the painting of John Quincy Adams, 
President of the United States, a copy of the portrait by 
Stuart, lent by Charles Francis Adams of Lincoln ; and be- 
neath are framed photographs, lent by Foster Brothers of 
Boston, of President James Madison^ original by Stuart, 
Alexander Hamilton and President Thomas Jefferson, 
original by Stuart. 

Just over the second John Hancock sofa are seen 
the coat-of-arms of the Gray family and photographs of 
Harrison Gray, 17 10-1794, and James Otis, Patriot, lent by 
Mrs. John H. Morison ; photographs of General Knox, 

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George Washington and Judge David Sewall, lent by Fos- 
ter Brothers of Boston ; a " Lady in High Cap ; " and, in 
order, photographs of Samuel Phillips Savage, 17 18-1797, 
Chairman of the Boston Tea-Party Meeting, original by 
Copley, 1763, lent by Mr. Lawrence Park of Groton ; and 
of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, James and Mary 
Alleyne Otis, father and mother of James Otis, and Eliza- 
beth Gray and Samuel Alleyne Otis, 1764, lent by Mrs. 
John H. Morison. 

Over the door is the coat-of-arms of the Otis family, also 
lent by Mrs. Morison. 

Rotunda, Second Floor 

Over the door to the Council Chamber will be noted the 
carved eagle from the Massachusetts State House, and in 
the door-frame, the exhibit lent to the State Commission 
by His Excellency, Governor Curtis Guild, Jr. Interesting 
in this exhibit is the sword of General John Stark, the vic- 
tor at Bennington ; a trade tomahawk, with hatchet, blade 
and pipe, belonging to the early part of the seventeenth 
century ; a spontoon carried by an officer in the famed Pep- 
perell Company at the Siege of Louisbourg in 1745 ; and a 
tower musket of the Revolutionary period, the regulation 
side-arms of an officer of the British Infantry. 

Leaving the Council Chamber, to the right, in the Rotunda, 
are to be seen the following objects of interest : — 

A map of the Early Penal and Charitable Institutions of 
Boston, lent by Dr. J. B. Ayer of Boston. 

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Map of Boston, 1722, lent by A. W. Longfellow of Boston. 

Map of Boston, lent by Dr. J. B. Ayer. 

Exterior and interior views of Fanueil Hall. 

A Color Print of the Boston Massacre, lent by A. W. 
Longfellow of Boston. 

A photograph " Right Whaling in Behring Straits and 
Arctic Ocean," from an original drawing by B. Russell, 
New Bedford. 

Photographs, in one frame, of the Bowlder on Lexing- 
ton Green, " The Old Monument," and " Buckman Tavern " 
from the Lexington Historical Society, and another of the 
Battle of Lexington after the painting by Sandham, lent by 
the same Society. 

A photograph of the Old State House and of Old Boston 
State Houses, lent by Dr. J. B. Ayer of Boston, and of 
Caleb Davis, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Rep- 
resentatives, lent by Dr. George B. Shattuck of Boston. 

Continuing around there will be seen the photograph of 
the Monument to Gosnold and his Settlement, 1602, given 
by the Old Dartmouth Historical Society of New Bedford ; 
"The first Boston Town-House," lent by Mr. Fred Joy 
of Winchester ; a set of interesting colored prints, lent by 
Mrs. Charles H. Taylor, Jr., of Boston, showing a Whaling- 
Fleet, also Harpooning and Cutting up of a Whale ; a 
Portion of Price's View of Boston, about 1724 (the original 
copy is on file in the British Museum), lent by Dr. J. B. 
Ayer of Boston. 

Just over the door of the Representatives' Hall is the 
carved seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Pass- 

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ing by the doorway and continuing in the rotunda are 
further photographs and reminders of early Boston. There 
is a print showing Boston Common in 1763 ; a large print 
entitled "Boston from the East and its Harbor in 1723," 
both lent by A. W. Longfellow ; a silhouette of William 
Rotch, one of the great whaling merchants of old Nan- 
tucket, lent by Miss Mary Rodman, of Concord ; two en- 
gravings of the " Monument on Beacon Hill ; " a " Boston 
State House," and another of "Boston Troops on Boston 
Common, 1800," lent by Dr. J. B. Ayer. Interesting, also, 
is the framed picture of the Old Elm on Boston Common, 
lent by Curtis Guild, Sr., of Boston. This tree was destroyed 
by a tempest in 1876. It was older than the colony. One 
of its limbs was used for the Colonial gallows during the 
witchcraft craze. The wood on which this picture is 
printed is a veneer cut from the tree itself. 

Under this picture will be noticed the reprints from the 
original plates by Paul Revere of the " Boston Massacre," 
"Long Wharf" and "Boston Harbor," lent by Dr. J. B. 
Ayer. An interesting photograph of the old John Hancock 
House, lent by the Lexington Historical Society, a photo- 
graph of an old New Bedford Whaler, and a Chart of 
Virginia, 1781, the property of Francis H. Bigelow of 
Boston, are also to be seen here. 

The alcoves of the rotunda on the second floor have been 
given over to the striking old Salem, Massachusetts, com- 
mercial-marine exhibit lent by the Essex Institute of the 
Peabody Museum. These alcoves have been designated 
alcove "A" and alcove "B." 

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Alcove "A" at the head of the central stairway contains 
water colors of : 

Topsail schooner, 1795; "Friendship"; Ship, 1795; 
" Mt Vernon " ; " Franklin " ; " Baltick " ; " Margaret " ; 
"Ulysses"; "Prudent"; "Trent"; "George"; also docu- 
ments in long frame (signatures of Washington, Jefferson, 
Adams, etc.); photograph of Arbella ; long frame with 
house photographs ; signal flags ; East India Marine Hall ; 
water color, city seal of Salem ; Essex Institute Building ; 
photographs of ship models in Peabody Museum, Marine 
Room ; photograph of the Marine Room ; photographs of 
miniature models made by war prisoners, 1779 and 18 12; 
types of Colonial vessels, sketches from old books ; sloop of 
1748 ; the frigate Essex, 1799 ; the yacht Cleopatra's Barge, 
1816. 

In alcove "B" will be seen, beginning at the left hand, 
oil portrait of Nathaniel Bowditch ; carbon photograph of 
Elias Hasket Derby ; document, privateer bond ; photo- 
graphs of i8th century nautical instruments, Certificate of 
Membership in Marine Society, 1766; document (two priva- 
teer papers in one frame) ; document (underwritten insur- 
ance policy, 1 748 ) ; Custom House papers, four in one frame ; 
Davis's Quadrant; photographs of 17th century nautical 
instruments; documents (two shipping receipts in one 
frame); Hadley's Quadrant; documents (Crowninshield 
autographs) ; Philip English autograph and house, 1698 ; 
water color of Ward house, 1684; water color of Narbonne 
house, 1680; water color of Crowninshield's wharf, 1798; 
silhouettes of old time merchants, Goodhue and West ; water 

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color of Cabot house, 1748 ; photograph of Pickman house, 
1750, and half-tones of Colonel Pickman. 

In the anteroom, off the rotunda, are to be found maps, 
charts, photographs and reports of the Metropolitan Water 
and Sewerage Commission. 

Representatives' Hall, Second Floor 

A striking collection of photographs of the Colonial Gov- 
ernors of the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, 
done by Marceau, is seen on entering this hall. This col- 
lection of photographs was especially prepared under 
authority of the Board of Jamestown Exposition Managers 
for Massachusetts, and comprises photographs of the follow- 
ing, beginning on the right : 

John Endecott, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 
1629-30, 1644-45, 1649-50, 1651-54, 1655-65. 

William Dummer, Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts Bay 
Colony, 1716-1730. 

Joseph Dudley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 
1702, 1714-15- 

William Burnet, Governor of the Province of Massachu- 
setts Bay, 1728. 

Thomas Gage, Governor of the Province of Massachu- 
setts Bay, 1774-1775. 

Beginning on the left: 

Josiah Winslow, Governor of Plymouth Colony, 1673-1680. 

Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of the Province of Massa- 
chusetts Bay, 1771-74. 

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Edward Winslow, Governor of Plymouth Colony, 1633, 
1636 and 1644. 

John Leverett, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 
1673-1679. 

Simon Bradstreet, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 
1679-1686. 

Under these portraits of the governors are the follow- 
ing : 

Engraving of William Pynchon, 1 590-1662, Treasurer of 
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1632-34, lent by C. K. Bolton 
of Brookline. 

Photogravures, lent by Mr. Frederick L. Gay, of the fol- 
lowing : 

Rev. Benjamin Colman, after Smibert, by Peter Pelham ; 
Rev. Charles Brockw^ell, A. M., by Peter Pelham ; Sir Wil- 
liam Pepperell, BarfT, after Smibert, by Peter Pelham ; Rev. 
Cotton Mather, by Peter Pelham ; Rev. John Moorhead, 
printed by J. Buch ; John Adams, printed by E. Savage ; 
Rev. Henry Caner, A. M., and Rev. Timothy Cutler, D.D., 
by Peter Pelham; Thomas Prince, A. M., printed by J. L. 
Buch, by Peter Pelham ; Rev. William Hooper, A. M., by 
Peter Pelham ; Governor William Shirley, by Peter Pelham ; 
and Matthew Byles, A. M., V. D. M. 

Engraving of Portrait of Sir Harry Vane, lent by C. N. 
Greenough of Cambridge. 

Photograph of Mrs. Timothy Orne of Salem, 1727-177 1, 
lent by Francis H. Lee of Salem. 

Photograph of Esther Wheelwright, Mother Superior of 
the Ursuline Convent in Quebec, 1785 ; daughter of Rev. 

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John Wheelwright, captured by the Indians when a child, 
recaptured by the French and educated at Montreal, Can- 
ada, lent by Mrs. John Heard Jr. of Boston. 

Photographs of John Eliot, the Apostle, lent by Foster 
Brothers of Boston; of Rev. John Lowell, 1703-1767, first 
minister to Third Church in Newbury, now First Newbury- 
port. Harvard College, 172 1, lent by Mr. J. A. L. Blake of 
Boston ; of Rev. and Mrs. John Wheelwright, parents of 
Esther Wheelwright, lent by Mrs. John Heard, Jr. ; of Mr. 
Samuel Phillips Savage, 17 18-1764, original by Copley, lent 
by Mr. Lawrence Park of Groton ; photograph of William 
Tyler, 1688-17 58, original by Smibert, lent by Mr. Law- 
rence Park of Groton. 

About the chamber are the following paintings : 

James Otis, Patriot. 

Hon. and Col. Jacob Wendell of Boston, original by 
Smibert, lent by Jacob Wendell, Jr., of New York. 

Col. Shute Shrimpton of Boston, 1647, ^^^^ t)y Miss E. 
W. Perkins of Boston. 

Copy of the portrait of John Cotton, lent by Rev. Roland 
Cotton Smith of Ipswich. 

Over the two fireplaces at the end of the room are the 
following : 

Copy of original portrait of Governor John Endecott, 
1 588-1665, made about 1820, by James Frothingham, lent 
by W. C. Endicott of Boston. 

Copy of the portrait of Governor John Winthrop, after 
a portrait attributed to Van Dyke, lent by the Boston 
Athenaeum. 

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Cotton Mather, copy of the portrait owned by the Rev. 
Roland Cotton Smith of Ipswich. 

Copy of portrait of Anthony Stoddard of Boston, 1700, 
lent by Miss E. W. Perkins of Boston. 

Copy of portrait of Mary Greene Hubbard, original by 
Copley, made and lent by Miss Whitwell of Boston. 

Copy of portrait of Daniel Hubbard, original by Copley, 
made and lent by Miss Whitwell of Boston. 
Compiled by 

WILLIAM A. MURPHY, 

Secretary 





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